Word: witchingly
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...respect, we Americans differ little from our 17th century Puritan forebears. We continue to believe in the efficacy of witch hunts of grandiose proportions for excising the evil from among us. They may provide a needed catharsis, may even have a mild deterrent effect; but when will we learn that evil is not a wart on the body politic, but a cancer endemic in the human soul...
...Through your fine reporting and analysis of the Watergate affair, you have shown that the only "fishing expedition" was Nixon's search for any means to hide the truth from the American people. It is ironic that the "witch hunt" is finally catching up with the "witch...
...beard--a black cassock is draped over his shoulders and bound with rope at the waist. Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy places; and she played to her mournful tunes, and caused wailful violins to attend her, and told her sad tales, thus holding her ever in an atmosphere of sweet sorrow...
...radio broadcast and in 1941 landed the first of her hundred or so screen roles in Citizen Kane (as Kane's mother). An Oscar nominee for five films including Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (she never won), she was best known in recent years as Endora, the waspish mother witch of TV's durable Bewitched series...
...plot's broader outlines have to do with a witch's curse that dooms each baronet of Ruddigore to commit a crime a day, on pain of an agonizing death administered by his ancestors. They're so utterly ridiculous that Gilbert apparently lost all interest in them, tacking on a perfunctory legalistic technicality of an ending to take off the curse and bring the ancestors to life--selectively, because he didn't have enough female leads to marry them...